Track listing

1. "September" – 1:17
2. "The Boy With the Gun" – 5:19
3. "Maria" – 2:49
4. "Orpheus" – 4:51
5. "The Devil's Own" – 3:12
6. "When Poets Dreamed of Angels" – 4:47
7. "Mother and Child" – 3:15
8. "Let the Happiness In" – 5:37
9. "Waterfront" – 3:23

10. "Forbidden Colours
    Forbidden Colours
    "Forbidden Colours" is a song composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto with lyrics by David Sylvian. The song is the vocal version of the theme from the Nagisa Oshima film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and was first released on the soundtrack album...
    
    " (music by Ryuichi Sakamoto
    Ryuichi Sakamoto
    After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
    
    , lyrics by Sylvian) - 6:01 (1984 b-side version from the "Red Guitar" single. Does not appear on 2003 Remaster.)
11. "Promise (The Cult of Eurydice)" - 3:28 (Japanese and 2003 Remaster bonus track)

Personnel

• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   – vocals, piano (1), treated piano (5), acoustic guitar (2, 4, 6), organ (2, 8), synths (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10), tapes (3, 5), assistant producer
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   – string arrangement (1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10), organ (2, 3, 5, 7, 8), synths (2, 4, 8), piano (4, 5, 7, 9, 10), treated piano (3), woodwind arrangement (5), brass arrangement (8)
• Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....
  
   – drums (4, 8, 10)
• David Torn
  David Torn
  David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...
  
   - electric guitar (2, 7), guitar loop (3)
• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
   - double bass (2, 4, 7)
• Danny Cummings
  Danny Cummings
  -Musical biography:The first Latin percussion instrument that Danny Cummings ever acquired was a second-hand conga he persuaded his parents to buy him for his 21st birthday. "I remember thinking that black fiberglass drum marked the beginning of a new era for me," says Cummings...
  
   - percussion (2, 6, 7, 8)
• Phil Palmer
  Phil Palmer
  Philip 'Phil' John Palmer is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists...
  
   - slide guitar (4), acoustic guitars (6)
• Mark Isham
  Mark Isham
  Mark Isham is an American trumpeter, synthesist, and film composer. He works in a variety of genres, including jazz, electronic, and film.-Life and career:...
  
   - flugelhorn
  Flugelhorn
  The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...
  
   (5,8), trumpet (6, 8)
• Brian Gascoigne - orchestral arrangement (4), string arrangement (8)
• Ann O'Dell - string arrangement (10)

Technical personnel

• Nigel Grierson - still life photography
• Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver
  Vaughan Oliver is a British graphic designer based in Epsom, South of London. Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23...
  
   - design, typography
• Yuka Fujii - portrait photography
• Steve Nye
  Steve Nye
  Steve Nye is a music producer for several artists. Some of his better known artists include Bryan Ferry , Penguin Cafe Orchestra, XTC , Japan , David Sylvian , Clannad, TM Network, Scary Thieves , as...
  
   - producer, mixing, Engineer
• Peter Williams - engineer (10)
• Richard Moakes - second engineer
• Steve Parker - second engineer
• John Timperley - second engineer
• Jean-Jacques Lemoine - assistant engineer
• Roland Prent - assistant engineer
• Steve Williams - assistant engineer
• Richard Chadwick - recording co-ordinating
• Catherine Wilson - assistant in recording